Integrated Topology Model for VDI Dependency Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
IT professionals face challenges in understanding and monitoring the complex interactions within virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) systems, leading to difficulties in diagnosing performance issues and optimizing resource allocation across physical and virtual resources.
Innovation Solution
A method is introduced that creates an integrated topology model (ITM) within a multilayer VDI architecture, comprising physical-and-virtual infrastructure, VDI, and access gateway topology models, to track dependencies and generate a dependency graph, providing insights into relationships between resources and facilitating performance classification and root-cause detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If virtualization solutions are used to consolidate physical servers into virtual machines, then resource consolidation and efficiency are improved, but system complexity and difficulty in monitoring performance increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the VDI system into three distinct topology models: physical infrastructure topology model (PVI-TM), VDI topology model (VDI-TM), and access gateway topology model (AG-TM). Each model focuses on a specific layer of the virtualized environment, allowing administrators to monitor and analyze each segment independently while maintaining overall system visibility. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by making the complex virtualized system manageable through structured division.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an integrated topology model (ITM) as an intermediary that connects and integrates the three separate topology models. The ITM serves as a mediator that correlates data across physical infrastructure, VDI resources, and access gateways, enabling unified monitoring without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components. This intermediary structure simplifies the monitoring of consolidated virtualized resources.
2Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If multiple topology models are integrated to provide comprehensive monitoring, then troubleshooting capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the monitoring system into three specialized topology models, each responsible for a specific aspect of the VDI infrastructure. This segmentation allows each model to focus on its specific domain (physical infrastructure, VDI resources, or access gateways), making the overall system easier to understand and maintain despite the comprehensive coverage provided.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the three separate topology models into a unified integrated topology model (ITM) that provides comprehensive system-wide monitoring. The ITM combines data from PVI-TM, VDI-TM, and AG-TM while maintaining the structural integrity of each component model, enabling administrators to view the complete system state without managing the complexity of three separate monitoring systems.
3Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If detailed dependency tracking is implemented across all VDI components, then root-cause detection is improved, but processing overhead and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes topology models and dependency relationships in advance, before performance issues occur. By pre-defining the structural relationships between physical infrastructure, VDI resources, and access gateways, the system is prepared to quickly trace dependencies when problems arise, eliminating the need for time-consuming real-time analysis of system architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified topological representations (models) of the actual VDI system. These model copies capture the essential dependency relationships without replicating the full complexity of the live system, allowing for efficient analysis and root-cause detection while minimizing processing overhead on the production system.
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes, responsive to deployment of at least one component of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in a multilayer VDI architecture, creating an integrated topology model (ITM) instance of interconnected topology objects, the ITM instance comprising: a physical-and-virtual infrastructure topology model (PVI-TM) instance comprising first interconnected topology objects; a VDI topology model (VDI-TM) instance comprising second interconnected topology objects; and an access gateway topology model (AG-TM) instance comprising third interconnected topology objects. The method further includes generating dependencies between the interconnected topology objects of the ITM instance, wherein the dependencies comprise. In addition, the method includes generating a dependency graph for the multilayer VDI architecture based, at least in part, on the dependencies. Also, the method includes outputting at least a portion of the dependency graph for presentation to a user.